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In July 2014, Serbian poet and academic Matija Bećković said "that 402,435 Serbian soldiers have been killed and 845,000 civilians hanged or exterminated in concentration camps during WWI. [143] At a September 2014 conference sponsored by the Serbian Ministry of Defense, Dr. Alexander Nedok put Serbian war dead at 1,247,435 persons. [144]
c. ^ Civil War: All Union casualty figures, and Confederate killed in action, from The Oxford Companion to American Military History except where noted (NPS figures). [20] estimate of total Confederate dead from James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1988), 854. Newer estimates place the total death toll at 650,000 ...
Pages in category "American military personnel killed in World War I" The following 153 pages are in this category, out of 153 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
General of the Armies John Pershing, served as Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in France, of which over 2 million American soldiers served. The first American troops arrived to Europe in June 1917 at a slow rate, but by the Summer of 1918, the rate had skyrocketed to 10,000 soldiers arriving each day.
Henry Nicholas John Gunther (June 6, 1895 – November 11, 1918) was an American soldier and possibly the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was killed at 10:59 a.m., about one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11:00 a.m. [ 2 ] [ 4 ]
The French summarily killed 130 people in public in Agadez and Ingal. Kaocen fled north; in 1919 he was killed by local militia in Mourzouk. Kaocen's brother was killed by the French in 1920 after a revolt he led amongst the Toubou and Fula in the Sultanate of Damagaram was defeated. [26]
Bergmann Offensive, first military engagement in the Caucasus of the First World War. November 3 Politics: Montenegro declares war on the Ottoman Empire. African, East African: Battle of Kilimanjaro: November 3–5 African, East African: Von Lettow-Vorbeck's German colonial forces defeat the British at the Battle of Tanga, German East Africa ...
Horn of Africa Second Congo War: 3–5.4 million [32] [33] [34] 1998–2003 Multiple sides Democratic Republic of the Congo Spanish conquest of New Granada: 5.25 million [35] [36] 1525–1540 Spanish Empire and Klein-Venedig vs. Muisca Confederation and other civilizations Colombia Deccan wars: 4.6–5 million [37] 1680–1707 Mughal Empire vs ...